| bigsatanloaf | Friday, March 15, 2013 - 03:09 pm 
I'd like a way to increase population growth by encouraging citizens to have more children. Perhaps long-term higher population growth could be balanced by a short-term increase in housewives (or just a decrease in employable citizens of both sexes - 21st Century!) + diminished life expectancy for women each time they give birth + increased social security cost to reflect State incentives (subsidies for childcare, family planning services, etc.).
On migration, maybe you could set a policy that encourages immigration by being able to toggle the education/health systems - the amount of education/health consumed by immigrants could be somewhat higher than for natural-born citizens (to reflect more language training of teachers/health professionals, vaccinations, etc.). |
| Borg Queen | Friday, March 15, 2013 - 09:03 pm
+1 for ssc for State incentives (would be a nice extra feature anyway) that may increase birthrates or maybe just lower child-death-rates
-1 for diminished life expectancy for women when given birth as that would reduce the overall ssc costs again as this would mean less retired people |
| bigsatanloaf | Friday, March 15, 2013 - 11:03 pm
Good point on reduced life expectancy also reducing the social security cost to care for the elderly/retired.
The main idea is that there is a tradeoff between short-term financial cost and population gain. |
| dillonmittan | Saturday, March 16, 2013 - 01:02 am
Or just have a bunch of college parties. |
